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Books like Hex 2001
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Hex
Books closest to Hex
Alice 2015Also grave, bleak and classical in form
Blood and Salt 2018Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
The Book of the Damned 1988Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Prince of Thorns 2011Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Escape from hell 2009Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
Enchantra 2025Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
Lost Souls 1992Also grave, classical in form and bleak
When Devils Sing 2025Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Mr. Shivers 2010Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Murder Road 2024Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
The Haar 2022Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Their Vicious Darling 2022Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
The same feel, in other forms
Films
The Wicker Man 2006Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns 2013Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
Lord of Misrule 2023Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Series
Blade Runner: Black Lotus 2021Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin 2022Also classical in form, grave and unpretentious
Slasher 2016Also grave, bleak and unpretentious
Albums
- Knives 2009Also grave, bleak and classical in form
- Larmes de héros 1986Also classical in form, grave and plot-driven
- Resurrection 1999Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Games
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin 2009Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Worse Than Death 2019Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Cat in the Box 2020Also grave, bleak and classical in form
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